Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] MacOSX Bundle

[Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil Martin wrote:
> I have created a prototype bundle for XaraLX on Mac OS X. (A Mac OS X 
> bundle is analogous to a RISC OS !Application folder, for those who go 
> back that far.)
>
> I propose to check it into SVN (without the executable, of course) in 
> the root of the XaraLX project, i.e. alongside Kernel, wxOil. Does that 
> sound OK or would it be better inside a platform specific support folder?

So excuse the dumb question, but what exactly /is/ a bundle. If it's
one of those "directory that can be treated as a file" thingies the
Mac supports, subversion isn't going to see it as anything except
a file or a directory, so it probably won't satisfy your requirement.

What should really be happening is that the Makefile should /create/
a bundle, and put the target app in it (say under a target called
"make bundle" if it's hard to modify the main target). If there
is some command-line way to do this, it will be easy enough
to put it in the makefile.

I agree though that if your fix works (try it, delete the bundle,
and see if "svn up" recreates it) it would be a good bodge for now.
But won't you at least need "make" to copy the target app into
the bundle (or am I missing something?).

Alex